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Silly house: how hackers send Your smart home to hell
Very soon all our home equipment will be connected to Internet. Don´t be surprised, when Your "smart" home, for instance, rises inside temperature to 1000 degrees, writes Slon.ru.
Fire alarm will start at three o´clock in the middle of night. You know, that this is not possible, but this sound is made by all kitchen and living room devices together. At that time, TV will start to show raw porn, water flows and so on. What´s going on? Read more here.
Meet Koda - a concrete house You can have in 7 hours
Group of Estonian designers and engineers constructed simple house, what uses solar energy and can move with You.
Small house is built ecologically. Air in a KODA house is cleaned and keeps right level of humidity. Vacuum-insulated concrete walls keep warmth and stop noise, with solar panels on the roof You can be almost energy independent. Usually KODA returns more power to the grid than it uses. Features like these mean that little or no energy is wasted:
• use of smart systems
• thin but well-insulated walls (with a U value of 0.1 W/m²K)
• quadruple glazing (with a U value of 0.3 W/m²K) and
• innovative LED lighting and architecture (which makes maximum use of sun).
AEG Power Solutions Launches its Hybrid Energy Storage Solution, Cutting Down Costs of Energy Storage Systems
The new platform is a unique system combining battery energy storage with Power-to-Heat technology. Solution targets the primary control reserve power reducing capital expenditure by 30 % and possibly more, depending on installation.
AEG Power Solutions has developed a Hybrid Energy Storage System which combines standard battery storage with power-to-heat technology to reduce the total cost of energy storage operation.
The solution can be installed in any type of facility which uses thermal processes, including local heat networks in combination with an electrical distribution network.